Book description
Rossamund has always dreamed of a career in the Navy, fighting
tentacled monsters and rescuing damsels from hook-handed pirates. But
fate has chosen him for a different path. He is being sent to train as
a Lamplighter - to bring light to the inland roads of the
Half-Continent, to shine the way for travellers through lands peopled
by outcasts, monsters and worse.
But for Rossamund to begin his education, he must first undertake a
journey of his own: to the great city of High Vesting. Such a road is
not for the faint of heart. Only monster-hunters, leers and the most
desperate of brigands dare travel the inland ways unguarded. And all
Rossamund carries with him is a battered almanac and a pocketful of
cheap potions. It is unlikely to be enough.
Stunning in scope and rich in detail, alive with memorable heroes
and villains and brimming with new and original science and magics,
D. M. Cornish's tale of scolds, scourges, smugglers and shrewds will
thrill and captivate, and leave the reader desperate for more.
D. M. Cornish is an acclaimed children's illustrator. He began making
notes and drawings for his debut novel FOUNDLING over thirteen years ago
and had filled over 28 journals with sketches, ideas and character
profiles before the first volume of the MONSTER BLOOD TATTOO trilogy
took shape. The book has since sold worldwide. D. M. Cornish is
thirty-three and lives in Australia.
